From Huff Post: While 18 states -- and soon to be 19 with the addition of New Hampshire -- as well as the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical use, federal law still considers it a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning it is judged not to have any medicinal qualities. Obama's administration has spent nearly $300 million to fund enforcement efforts against medical marijuana in these states.

Nothing short of full legalization can be the goal. As long as there is a federal ban, a dark cloud is over our country. As more states come to full legalization it will be brought up on the federal level. Just as Clinton felt he had to support that abomination DOMA law, Obama feels he has to still be at war with pot. It's embarrassing. Being a hypocrite means you are wrong. When it came to ganja and my kids, i refused to be a hypocrite, and managed to raise them to adulthood without doing so. And still, they didn't discover my ganja use until they were in their late teens. It is possible to not be a hypocrite, but Obama has chosen that path. Be strong President Obama, and before you leave office, do the right thing!

Not sure if it's being a hypocrite or treading carefully in a very hostile environment, or that marijauana doesn't have the priority of the two wars, economy, jobs, and closing Gtmo. Seems there more important items on the agenda right now.

I also don't think people realize how hard that job is- what you want to do vs. what happens often changes once the person is in office.

Hypocrisy is holding a belief or saying something and then doing the opposite.

When he ran for the office, Obama said he would not crack down on medical dispensaries that complied with State laws. After a brief respite upon taking office, Obama began cracking down on medical dispensaries that comply with State laws. That sure sounds hypocritical to me.....

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Not sure if it's being a hypocrite or treading carefully in a very hostile environment, or that marijauana doesn't have the priority of the two wars, economy, jobs, and closing Gtmo. Seems there more important items on the agenda right now.

I also don't think people realize how hard that job is- what you want to do vs. what happens often changes once the person is in office.

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No, he's being a hypocrite pure and simple. He's also a liar and a personal agenda pusher. What he should have done was treaded carefully while he was making all his promises. At the end of the day Republican and Democrat both = Politician, and more times than not Politician = two faced crook.

I don't give 2 turds how hard his job is. If he wasnt ready for the pressure he shouldn't have put his hat in the ring.

I'm with you E.B. herbalist, except I don't think it's a personal agenda that Obama's pushing but rather that of the corporate elites. It's been that way for a long time now, everyone should realize this if we are going to change things for the better...

I'm the OP and it is not off topic at all. This forum stays alive and vibrant throughout the year with discussions indirectly or not related to SNWMF. Many of the artists past and this year consider this a very important topic.

Seeing as how our excellent moderator shared his thoughts on the topic above, I think he would agree with me. Either way, it is his call to make.

Plenty off topic threads get posted here, medical ganja is something many of us care about. You want to talk off topic? sports threads, man, they have nothing to do with reggae, but they get posted here also.

Is it me, or do the post festival vibes this year seem a little harsh?

I'm very disappointed in Obama on this issue and many other issues as well. I initally had high expectations but have since realized that this was simply foolish misplaced optimism on my part.

I really think Eric Holder is the probably the guy responsible for the crackdown and money spent on the Medical MJ crackdown. Obama should care but my guess is he doesnt care and that he doesn't care he's not living up to his pledge not to interfere with state law. But, Eric Holder is Obama's guy so the buck stops with Obama.

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Plenty off topic threads get posted here, medical ganja is something many of us care about. You want to talk off topic? sports threads, man, they have nothing to do with reggae, but they get posted here also.

Is it me, or do the post festival vibes this year seem a little harsh?

I think we can always work on being positive and respecting others. Easy to say tough to do. Reggae is positive and uplifting and I know of guilty of my negative comments just like anyone else.

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I'm very disappointed in Obama on this issue and many other issues as well. I initally had high expectations but have since realized that this was simply foolish misplaced optimism on my part.

I really think Eric Holder is the probably the guy responsible for the crackdown and money spent on the Medical MJ crackdown. Obama should care but my guess is he doesnt care and that he doesn't care he's not living up to his pledge not to interfere with state law. But, Eric Holder is Obama's guy so the buck stops with Obama.

Holder is a huge problem in himself. Why this guy hasn't been handed his walking papers over the whole fast and the furious debacle is beyond me. Anybody else that performs at their job the way he has would have been @#$%& canned long time ago.....

Maybe it's like when i come back from Hawaii, i'm in such a bad mood. Everyday life does not contrast well with those three days of snwmf.

As far as Obama is concerned, though i am deeply disappointed in several policies of his, i am more than sure i would be much much more angry if Romney had been elected, let alone McCain. You don't get to pick what you want, just the lesser of two evils.

And the tea party pugilists have been trying to find something to plaster on him since he was first elected. It's taken them this long, and all they've found is this irs business and the made up shrill Benghazi thing. If thats all the racists could find, his administration must be squeaky clean.

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And the tea party pugilists have been trying to find something to plaster on him since he was first elected. It's taken them this long, and all they've found is this irs business and the made up shrill Benghazi thing. If thats all the racists could find, his administration must be squeaky clean.

let's not forget the phone tracing......besides I'm sure Obama has way more dirt to be found, I mean he is president of the USA. You don't get elected without some serious skeletons hiding in big money lobbyists closets. The reason the tea party idiots can't dig anything up is because they are still in disbelief that we have a black president. I don't think that will ever settle in with some of those folk...

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I am totaly with you on the lesser of two evils nonsense. I dont support any party over another, therefore if I don't like a canididate, I don't cast my vote. I know people are going to have a huge problem with that, but I really don't care. I'm tired of being force feed information, policies, agendas, choices and candidates. Revolutions do n't always need to be in the form of war and violence. It can simply be in the form of the people revolting against the status quo and set a new presidence for what WE THE PEOPLE want.

GWB's Patriot act paved the way for Obama. Not to mention how may Trillions he pissed away to accomplish virtually nothing positive. Obama is just another Muppet in. Never ending epiode of Kroft Super Stars. The anger should be directed to the "game" rather than the "playa" of the day.

Why, because to you that would be a valid link and would negate your question? Leaving your post as just an expression of your bad mood? Why do you interject unrelated questions into a discussion? Do you do this to all discussions on this board which you feel are off topic? I think not. Perhaps there is something about this particular discussion which vexes you? Maybe you should tell us about it. Otherwise, it might be best for you to ignore discussions that you don't care about, even if you don't understand why others care about them.

Look, I am disappointed with Obama as well. But he was definitely the choice in 2008 and, even more in 2012 for all thinking folks. However, he's let me down on a variety of issues: government transparency, closing of Gitmo, lack of prosecution of anyone on Wall St. for the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, drone policy, lip-service to gun control, etc. But compared to the alternatives presented to us in 2008 and 2012, I am proud to say that I voted for him and, give the same choices in the same circumstances, would happily do so again.

Full disclosure - I am a socialist. I think that capitalism is an evil system and our political system was created by our corporate masters to create the illusion of 'rights' and 'choice' - ultimately, our political system is a system of control.

Capitalism thrives on the back of cheap labor - so it creates what it needs to survive, like all systems of control. It creates a class of desperately poor people to serve the machine with cheap labor. It creates a class of consumers, with the fictional label of 'the middle class', by extending credit made easy to obtain but hard to escape from -- lose your job and you instantly lose your middle class status. You are then relegated to the cheap labor pool (aka, 'the poor'). The middle-class fears becoming poor more than anything else.

And i only needed one reason to vote for him, the supreme court picks. How the republicans found so many copies of the devil incarnate when they had the presidency, it's impressive! Those picks last for decades, and we have been suffering and continue to, and will until one of the conservative wing drops out.

I just saw a video from the '80s with Reagan announcing to a large crowd that he was committing $20 Million per year towards marijuana eradication and enforcement to which he received a big applause. Fast forward to 2013 and we are spending $13.7 Billion...yes Billion...per year on it.

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Revolutions do n't always need to be in the form of war and violence. It can simply be in the form of the people revolting against the status quo and set a new presidence for what WE THE PEOPLE want.

The problem is "we the people" are just as divided as our politicians. For every progressive who would like to see a Bernie Sanders as president, there is another "revolutionary" who sides with Rick Santorum.
Unfortunately, Obama might be the most progressive president I may see in my lifetime. He's certainly the most liberal since Jimmy Carter, who (from what I've read) is living proof telling people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear is political suicide. And for all his faults, Obama is still preferable to the gangster Cheney, the warhawk McCain and the autocrat Romney. But he still shouldn't get a free pass on his Drug War & Patriot Act BS from progressives just because he has a D in front of his name.